Sam Walton, the founder of the Wal-Mart chain, had 10 rules for building a business that he adamantly believed in. According to the Wal-Mart web site, the following are the principles that have enabled the company to experience more than 40 years of outrageous success:

1. Commit to your business. You have to believe in it more than anyone else. You have to have passion. Love your work and do it the best you can every day.
2. Share your profits with all your associates and treat them as partners. This will make the people who work for you perform beyond your wildest expectations. Behave as a servant leader.
3. Motivate your partners. You have to constantly think of new ways to motivate your partners.
4. Communicate everything you possibly can to your associates. The more they understand, the more they'll care.
5. Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.
6. Celebrate your successes. Have fun. Find humor in your failures. Loosen up.
7. Listen to everyone in your company. And more important, try to get them talking. The ones who really talk to the customers are the ones who really know what's going on.
8. Exceed your customers' expectations. Give them what they want-then give 'em a little more.
9. Control your expenses better than your competitors. You can survive a lot of mistakes if you're efficient.
10. Swim upstream. Ignore the conventional wisdom; find your niche by going another direction.

If you want to avoid irrelevant results whenever you search on Google, use these tried and true tips:

 Use double quotations around phrases to get an exact match. For example, if you want to find information on employee communications, type in "employee communications"¨ and Google will return only those web sites that contain that exact phrase.
 If you want to exclude a term from your search, put a minus sign ( - ) in front of the word. For instance, if you wanted to search on the word 'inspirational" but wanted to exclude religious content, you would type in "inspirational -religion¨.
 If you want to look up web sites that contain two different phrases or words but not necessarily grouped together in a phrase, use the plus sign ( + ). For example, if you wanted to find a business that rents luxury cars in your city, you could type in "yourcity¨ + "luxury car rental¨.

Here are some other cool things you can find with Google:

 Want to find out the name of the person who called you when you only have the caller ID number? Type in phonebook:xxx-xxx-xxxx (with the x's being the actual number) and it will look that person up.
 If you want to know what city or state a person is located based on their area code, just type in the 3 digit number into Google.
 If you want to look up the definition of a word, type in define:someword¨ with "someword" being the word you want to look up. Google will return the definition.
 If you want to calculate something, type the formula into Google. Example: 6*8 (this is a cool way to check your child's algebra homework even if it's been years since you took Algebra)

By Lisa Gullette, CreatiVisibility
February 26, 2007

Having a Web presence has become one of the most important marketing tools available today for millions of businesses. In 2004, Forrester Research calculated that world wide internet commerce would hit $6.8 trillion that year. Companies today have grown by using the Internet as an efficient use of their marketing dollar by advertising online and using the Internet to increase commerce. But visitors to Web pages do not always want to purchase online, they have other motives for reading your pages.

If you want to keep your online visitors interested in your business, you have to keep your Web site fresh. Web sites are considered "live" which means they change and evolve and interact; don't ignore this powerful marketing tool for your business.

"Your home page is similar to your glass storefront, window shoppers will be more intrigued to come in if they see something in your window they didn't see the last time they passed by."

Click here for some tips to keep your Web site fresh and live:

     If your teenaged child or grandchild is gainfully employed, they can contribute up to $2,000 a year to a Roth IRA. The contributions aren't tax deductible, but at the child's puny tax bracket it doesn't matter.
     Let's say the child puts in $2,000 a year between the ages of 16 and 21, and then doesn't contribute another dime. If the Roth IRA earns 10% per year, the child will have $1,022,521 at age 65...and the money will be completely TAX FREE!

These answers were actually submitted by students of Dr. Richard Lederer's class at St. Paul's School in New Hampshire:

· Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere.
· The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn't have history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female moth.
· Actually, Homer was not written by Homer, but by another man of that name.
· Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock. After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.
· In the Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits, and threw the java.
· Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king. Dying, he gasped out: "Tee hee, Brutus."
· Joan of Arc was burned to a steak and was canonized by Bernard Shaw. Finally, Magna Carta provided that no man should be hanged twice for the same offence.

According to author, radio personality, and founder of the Egoscue Method of Health Through Motion, Pete Egoscue, chronic pain and conditions such as eyestrain, back pain, carpal tunnel, and repetitive stress injuries can all be alleviated-and cured- through proper alignment.

According to his book, Pain Free At Your PC, the cause of the pain is often incorrectly attributed to the activity that makes the pain happen. For example, many people attribute wrist pain to hours of typing or some other overuse injury, when the true cause is the position of the wrist due to poorly aligned shoulders or hips, not the wrist or the activity itself. According to Pete, if your body was in proper alignment, your wrist would be in the proper position to work pain-free. "The true source of musculoskeletal pain is rarely the site of the pain. If your wrist hurts when pointing and clicking the mouse, the pain probably has nothing to do with the device," says Pete.

To discover how you can eliminate chronic pain without drugs or surgery, visit Pete Egoscue's website: www.egoscue.com or listen to his free podcast on iTunes, "Pain Free Radio."

For more information on making this system work for you, contact Theresa or click here and Send a Free Card to check it out yourself.

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